Stories on my mishaps and triumphs when it comes to parenting. A working mother of two with a ridiculous love for reading and baking.

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

A Cuppy Puppy Experience

Hi there! How are you? I hope you're doing spectacularly well. As for me, I've been baking. I know, I know, I should take pictures and blog about what has been keeping me up most nights (it's not Baby Z!) but I keep forgetting to take pictures of what I've baked! Let me correct that, I end up taking pictures using my mobile phone in very bad lighting conditions, making it embarrassing to post. Anyway, next time I will have to come up with a better schedule and take into consideration a proper photoshoot.

WELL. This post is all about a basic cake deco class I joined some weeks back. The talented artist behind Cuppy Puppy Bakehouse is Chef Joanna Penaloza Romero, and I was encouraged by a friend to take her class because she is the only one who teaches the method of covering a cake with ganache and producing sharp edges in one's cakes.

The class took place in the Cuppy Puppy Studio which was in the south, since I don't usually frequent that area I got lost and was almost late for the workshop! Chef Joanna is a beautiful, young woman who shared with us how she started in the business. She was very patient and encouraging throughout the whole class.

Chef Joanna at far right, my classmates and I and the results of the workshop :)

Guess what? I wasn't able to take enough photos! For a new baker like me, everything was twice as hard and I was working extra slow. Ganaching a cake is serious business. Instead, let me share with you what my finished decorated cake looked like and know that this cake was so hard to make!

This was my cake. Not bad, right?

Here's an Instagram photo of what the cake looked like after transport (the butterflies wings collapsed) and after a slice (I couldn't help it!). The cake was delicious! It was baked already by Chef Joanna, we just decorated it for the workshop.

About Me

I am the mother of two beautiful little girls who often exasperate, delight, and tire me out! Being a parent (and a working one at that) can be quite daunting but also very rewarding. Here, I write about my parenting 'experiments' and observations, some tips and 'life hacks' I have picked up over the years and more.
Posts on the other love of my life, baking, can be found on onenuttybaker.blogspot.com